The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

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

Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

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

Integrity needs no rules.