Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.