People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.