Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.

Man's existence precedes his essence

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.