I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.