The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.