That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

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.

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

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

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.