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

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?

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

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

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.

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

A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.