What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

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.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.