Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that she claims from life an absolute which she cannot find there.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?