breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.

breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.