There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.