I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
Fame is a bitch, man.
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
He was a man, he always performed his promises.
A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.