The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you give, after a sleepless night, on decisions made with enthusiasm the day before, on pages you have written in one spurt without crossing out a word.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.