I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

Words are the small change of thought.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

If money does not make you happy, give it back