Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation.

The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.

I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will never be able to read this book'.

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible.

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place.

Seeking Your face and not only Your hand, I find You embracing me just as I am.

Who cares about tomorrow?What more is tomorrow, than another day?(-The Avett Brothers, "Swept Away")

love yourself, be yourself.

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us.

Surrender isn’t a one-time event but a moment-by-moment choice.

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.

When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.

Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.