"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."

"We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and in others."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"One day, when I am no more, I will be remembered as a writer who loved the sun, and the sea, and the earth."

"Man's greatness lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition."