Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.

but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

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.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.