We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.