What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.