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.)

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.