Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.