A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

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

With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.