Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.