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

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

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.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.