I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

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

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.