It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.

Man must be invented each day

I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.