...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! for everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words. one morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived.

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

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

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

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.