We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

Some are created to love, while the others - to live.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.