Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me

Buying is a profound pleasure.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.