Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.