Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.

All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.

You are what you are and that fascinates me.

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.

I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.