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

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.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

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.

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

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