There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.

To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.

What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.