The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

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

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency.

I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.