I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.

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

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.