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

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.