"I have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone."

"The moment you realize that you are not a victim, you become free."

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

"I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living."

"Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and as a result man is abandoned, because he cannot find anything to depend on within or outside himself."