I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

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

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.