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

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you give, after a sleepless night, on decisions made with enthusiasm the day before, on pages you have written in one spurt without crossing out a word.

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

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