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.

The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.