My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

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

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

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.

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