Then the dog began to moan in old Salamano's room, and through the sleep-bound house the little plaintive sound rose slowly, like a flower growing out of the silence and the darkness.

To stay, or to make a move — it came to much the same.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

In order to be created, a work of art must first of all make use of the dark forces of the soul. But not without channeling them, surrounding them with dikes, so that the water in them rises.

Start by looking for what is valid in every human being.

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.