"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's being driven into the street, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
"When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?"
"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."
"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."