One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!