I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

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.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.