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

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

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?

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.