“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
“If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”
“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”
“My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.”
“The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.”
“My name is Hope Happy, and I am a pessimist.”