The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.