Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.