This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

Because we can imagine, we are free.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.