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

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

...there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.