I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

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.

This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.