Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.