Ты прошла такую школу невзгод, что в итоге прониклась ненавистью не только к несчастью, но также и к несчастным. Это хорошо известная защитная реакци… - Romain Gary

I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.

I battled my feelings of inferiority bravely, picking out a guest and imagining him floating in the air at the end of a line I held in my hand, with his stiff-legged trousers, his checked vest, and his yellow tie, propelled this way or that with a flick of my hand. It was the first time I had wielded my imagination as a weapon of defense, and nothing ever turned out to be more beneficial to me in this life.

من یک آدم آزادم . من نمیخواهم بنده خوشبختی باشم . خوشبختی ها همه از یک قماشند . کامت که شیرین شد ، لذت زندگی را که جشیدی دیگر فاتحه عصیان خوانده شده است . جایی که شیرین کامی باشد عصیان نیست . کیست که بتواند بگوید دروغ میگویم ؟ خوشبختی افیون ملت هاست . رکوده . بدبختی اسباب پیشرفته . اگر شلاق و مهمیز نباشه اسب از جاش تکون نمیخوره .