People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.
I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.