"I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature who insists on having one."

"One day, when I am no more, I will be remembered as a writer who loved the sun, and the sea, and the earth."

"The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits."

"There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for."

"We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and in others."