Live with no time-out.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.