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

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

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!

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.