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

I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

your judgement judges you and defines you

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.