He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

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.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.