In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.