Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

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

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.