The act of love is a confession.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.