French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable.

[Albert Camus]didn't have much hope that things would work out, but he wanted them to. Algeria had reached such a degree of violence that once such violence is created there's no more room for reflection. And there's no mediating position. If you look at Bosnia today, the Croats, Bosnians and Serbs, they've all created so much horror that one starts to wonder how these peoples can live together, after having done what they have. Already the violence has reached such a degree that everybody is living in hate, there's no possibility of reflection, no mediating position.

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that had been conferred upon him.

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.