The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. All the readers believe that authors do it. All the authors know that it can't be done.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.