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.

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

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

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.