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.

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.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.