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.

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.

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.

French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable.

Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever

Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony.

Our country has tremendous problems. We're a debtor nation.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Arbitration is justice blended with charity.

Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of "rich" usually cancels out the nice of "bald".

You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look