Albert Guinon

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

“You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It’s a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.