There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

This then is the age of reason.