I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.