Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

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

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.