I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.