I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show how a man can pass from literature held sacred to action which nevertheless remains that of an intellectual.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.