Existence Is Prior To Essence.

All That I Know About My Life, It Seems, I Have Learned In Books.

One Cannot Become A Saint When One Works Sixteen Hours A Day.

Thrown Into The Atmosphere Of Action [in 1954], I Suddenly Understood The Kind Of Neurosis That Dominated All My Previous Work. I Had Not Been Able To Recognize It Before: I Was Inside. Simone De Beauvoir Had Guessed These Reasons Before I Did.

Better A Good Journalist Than A Poor Assassin.

To Choose Not To Choose Is Still To Act.