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

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

To choose not to choose is still to act.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

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