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

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.