This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

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.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.