I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.

it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no longer read the headlines we long to return to our ancestral home where our forebears once lived under an angel’s wing we long to find that strange morality which sanctified life to the end we crave something like loyalty like the embrace of mild addictions something that transcends yet contains life we cannot live far from eternity

Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It’s what’s known as ‘the law of the market’… In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.