Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.