That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

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

If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.