I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.

...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.