Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed, that is the meaning of evolution.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.