Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

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.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.