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.

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.

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.

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence