It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.