I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?