I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

We have art in order not to die of life.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.