We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head

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