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

Man must be invented each day

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that is all. For me, style - which does not exclude simplicity, quite the opposite - is above all a way of saying three or four things in one. There is the simple sentence, with its immediate meaning, and then at the same time, below this immediate meaning, other meanings are organized. If one is not capable of giving language this plurality of meaning, then it is not worth the trouble to write.