Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

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

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.

I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.