If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.

Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.