"It is and will be impossible to reestablish any sort of contact with the men who are currently at the head of the [French Communist Party]. Each sentence they utter, each action they take is the culmi…"

"I burst out laughing at the thought of the face he would make. The Self-Taught Man looks at me with surprise. I'd like to stop but I can't; I laugh until I cry."

"Every anti-communist is a dog."

"I detest the guts of the French bourgeoisie."

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."