Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

Existence is prior to essence.

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

There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.

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

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

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.