The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.