Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.