A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

There is no art without Eros.