In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

I am myself and I am here.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.