Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

What is not possible is not to choose.