Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?