No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.