For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

For what are we born if not to aid one another?

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.