Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.