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.

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

People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.