The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

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

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.