Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

Am well. Thinking of you always. Love

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

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.