A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.