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

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.