I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.