Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

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