I was against the war in Iraq because I said it's going to totally destabilize the Middle East, which it has. It has absolutely been a disastrous war, and by the way, perhaps almost as bad was the way Barack Obama got out. That was a disaster.
Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.
Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.
Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.
You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.
Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.
It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.
From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
Lesson learned? When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. No one ever says, "You really, really must deliver the baby during labor. " When it's true, it doesn't need to be said.
Truth has no beginning.