It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

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.

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.