Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

- Romain Gary

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

- Romain Gary

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 sl…

- Romain Gary

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

- Romain Gary

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

- Romain Gary

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

- Romain Gary

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

- Romain Gary

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

- Romain Gary

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

- Romain Gary