The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy idea.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?…Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.

There is no perfection only life