Romain Gary

"Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him."

"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 achiev…"

"The bombs I dropped on Germany between 1940 and 1944 maybe killed a Rilke or a Goethe or a Hölderin in his cradle. And yes, of course, if it had to be done over, I would do it again. Hitler had condem…"

"Great Pretenders" by Emma Garman in Tablet"

"Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with…"

"During the war he was an airman and slaughtered civilians from on high."

"A writer’s subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there."

"When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated."