I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

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

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

Acting is happy agony.