...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ...

We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep…

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune...

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Imagination governs the world.

We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.

Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

Women and rhythm-section first!?

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore.