To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.