There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you give, after a sleepless night, on decisions made with enthusiasm the day before, on pages you have written in one spurt without crossing out a word.

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

I do not think therefore I am a moustache

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.