Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

Public speaking is something I fear more than death itself.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.