This is the century of fear.

We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

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.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.