I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?

I do not think therefore I am a moustache

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.