Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.