“things explain each other,
Not themselves.”

“There is no death, each of us knows —
it's banal to say.
I'll leave it to others to explain.”

“You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other.”

“Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.”

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”

“Somebody want to explain to me why those soldiers were shooting each other?'
(…)'Inbreeding?”

“What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.”

“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”

“A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.”

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”