It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.