To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.