I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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

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