The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.