In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.