In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in an afterlife or not, whether I believe in God or not, I can only answer you that all things are possible. And if all things are possible, heaven and hell and the angels are also possible. They're not to be ruled out.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.