When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!