Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.

Significance is sweet.

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

The temerity to believe in nothing.

I never started from ideas but always from character.

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.