For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own."

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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."

"Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while."