You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.

when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?