Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.