It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

We're going forward, but nothing changes.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.