People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.

Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.