The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.