I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.