I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.