To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.