I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

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

Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.

I considered calmly that I was born to write.

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.