A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.