Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

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

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

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

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

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

When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.