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

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems which are neglected now. But the original givens of this science are the same for men and for women. Women simply have to steal the instrument; they don't have to break it, or try, a priori, to make of it something totally different. Steal it and use it for their own good.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.