Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.