I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.