I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

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.

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

I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.