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

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.

My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.