One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.

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