I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

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.

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.