If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

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.