« To friends, if only for fear of hurting each other and jeopardizing our friendship, we are far from saying everything. There is a certain amount of reserve. »

« The islands today attract me: they satisfy my desire for a shoreline better than my beaches in the past. Above all, these islands whose two coasts contrast: the so-called "wild" coast, with its cliffs and piles of rocks ready to fall, and the other the "civilized", facing the continent, bordered by small dunes, soft as the skin of a woman. »

« Every time I spend a few days in Venice, my steps take me voluntarily or not along the Nuove Foundations from where you can see the Isola San Michele. The day I took the vaporetto that leads to this cemetery, I came across Claude Roy who was coming out. Claude died a short time later and I'm still here... Suddenly I think of my father whose comrades during the Great War fell under the shrapnel one after the other. All of them, my father said, were asking, "Who's next? When will mine come?" I am certainly not the only one asking this question. We always think death is an enemy shell that falls on us. »