I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.
You are -- your life, and nothing else.
It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?
Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature.