Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.