As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

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

I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.