Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
