Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

Integrity needs no rules.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.