Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.