...Life is nothing but trading smells.

In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.