I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

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

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

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.

Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.