“what we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish.”

“I am free,’ he said suddenly. And his joy changed, on the spot, to a crushing sense of anguish.”

“The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself.”

“You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other’s imagination. I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny. It is no use whingeing about what I might have been, I am the things I have done and nothing more. We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine.”

“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. ”

“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”