If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.

Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.