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.

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.