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

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.

This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.