I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

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

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.