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

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.