In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.