There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility; their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.