Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a criminal himself.

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.

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.