What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature.
Jean-Paul SartreI never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
Jean-Paul SartreThe painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
Jean-Paul Sartre