It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

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

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

Live with no time-out.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.