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.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.