The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."