I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.