To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.