Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

...there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'.

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.