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

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

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.