As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.