You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.