To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.