I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

I do not think therefore I am a moustache

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.