A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!

I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

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.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.