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

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.