We must act out passion before we can feel it.

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.

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

We make our own hell out of the people around us.

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.