"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."
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
"It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway."
"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."