Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.