The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
Writing is thinking in slow motion.
The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life-that is the heart of existentialism.