"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
"It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway."
"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."
"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."
"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep"
"There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn."