What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.

I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.

As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.