anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin, I bet you've never thought of that, you carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn't frighten you...my dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside

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.

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.