Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.