Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.