Don't worry, life is good despite everything!

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper.

Our first love is always our last.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

L'�me humaine ne s'explique pas par la psychologie. Elle ne peut �tre expliqu�e, elle est � vivre.

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.