No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in..

It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits the spectator to glimpse ….

In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner..

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone..

Imagination is the voice of the daring..

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men..

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip..

The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of lif….

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests..

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves….

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself..

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life..

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it..

All growth is a leap in the dark..

There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away.….

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves..

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it..

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis..

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You beco….

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you mig….