A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

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.)

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.