We have art in order not to die of life.

Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.

What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?

There is no love of life without despair of life.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.