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.

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

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

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

Hell is other people at breakfast.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.