Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

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

Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don't correspond. We are all post-synchronized and sometimes is very accomplished and looks natural.

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

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

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