I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.