Man must be invented each day

He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's always feeling me, but if they put the glass in his hands he wouldn't touch it, he wouldn't think, "that's hers," you ought to love all of somebody, the esophagus, the liver, the intestines. Maybe we don't love them because we aren't used to them, but if we saw them the way we saw our hands and arms maybe we'd love them; the starfish must love each other better than we do.

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.