Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.