The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.