In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

Men die and they are not happy.