The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

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.