"...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?"
"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."
"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."
"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."
"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never."
"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it."