When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

Life should be lived to the point of tears

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.