There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.