“Never postpone until tomorrow what you can postpone until the day after.”

“I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.”

“I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible”

“Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn’t what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.”

“Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.”

“The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in peace in their communal graves, for at least the struggle in which they died has enabled their descendants, isolated in their air-conditioned apartments, to believe, on the strength of their daily dose of television, that they are happy and free. The Communards went down, fighting to the last, so that you too could qualify for a Caribbean cruise.”

“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth”