Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.