Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they belong to the same social class, the same milieu, they have the same experiences. Once you read one of those books, you have read them all. And this is a problem.

You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will not be like her mother. She can invent something new. I think that is the best message of modernity.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.