"We are our choices, and we are responsible for our choices."

"To be ashamed is to be aware of the fact that I am myself the being by whom the world is revealed."

"This is the contradiction of racism, colonialism, and all forms of tyranny: in order to treat a man like a dog, one must first recognize him as a man."

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are."

"Once they have slept together they will have to find something else to veil the enormous absurdity of their existence."