But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.