A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.