To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.