It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.