One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.