Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

Hell is other people at breakfast.