Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.

Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.