So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.

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

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.