But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.