I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.