Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.