Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own individuality into the cauldron of the multitude either with a feeling of defeat or euphoria.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.