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.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.