I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

No man is a devil in his own mind.