In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.