Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

All I know of morality I learned from football

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.