“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

The evil that is in the world comes almost always from ignorance.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.