I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

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

The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.