It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.

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

What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

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

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!