Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

Employment is my right my destiny.