What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.