A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

A constant interrogation.