Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.