It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature.