We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews.

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

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.