Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.