If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.