What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.