You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Existence is prior to essence.

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.