It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch.

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?