In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.