After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.