I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

I am the place in which something has occurred.