But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.