Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.