Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.

I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.

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

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.