The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.