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.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.