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

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his new-hidden thoughts lucidly and according to accepted models.

The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.

But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.

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!