What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.