If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.