Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.