Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

Some of these days, Oh, you'll miss me honey