From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.