Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

We didn't know each other well. I never had the time. Now I see that it doesn't make any difference. The ones who hurry and the ones who take their time all end up in the same place. Just don't have any regrets. No regrets.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?