Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.
Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.
Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.
Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.
I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.
I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.
I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial.
The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated
We're only immortal for a limited time.
Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray.