The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.