How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.