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.

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!

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

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

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.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

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