Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

Acting is happy agony.

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.

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.