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.

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

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.