It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.