Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Morality, when formal, devours.

We are all special cases.

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.