When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.