This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?