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Do You Know Why Albert Camus Was So Prolific? He Wrote To Keep From Screaming.

Albert Camus Wrote That The Only Serious Question Is Whether To Kill Yourself Or Not. Tom Robbins Wrote That The Only Serious Question Is Whether Time Has A Beginning And An End. Camus Clearly Got Up On The Wrong Side Of Bed, And Robbins Must Have Forgotten To Set The Alarm. There Is Only One Serious Question. And That Is: Who Knows How To Make Love Stay? Answer Me That And I Will Tell You Whether Or Not To Kill Yourself.

I Went Through A Whole Phase When I Was Younger Of Being Obsessed With Tolstoy And Kafka And Camus, All Those Really, Beautiful, Dark Depressing Books.

Well, When I Was A Young Writer The People We Read Were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And To Begin With, I Was A Bit Of A Copycat Writer And Very Derivative And Tried To Write A Novel Using Their Voices, Really.... I Keep It Out Of Print.

What Is Courage? This Courage Will Not Be The Opposite Of Despair. We Shall Often Be Faced With Despair, As Indeed Every Sensitive Person Has Been During The Last Several Decades In This Country. Hence Kierkegaard And Nietzsche And Camus And Sartre Have Proclaimed That Courage Is Not The Absence Of Despair; It Is, Rather, The Capacity To Move Ahead In Spite Of Despair.

Camus Believed In Dialogue And Diplomacy, And Enlisted His Work As A Philosopher To The Need To Find Nonviolent Solutions, Whereas Sartre Called For Violent Conflicts And Justified Terror.

Albert Camus, A Great Humanist And Existentialist Voice, Pointed Out That To Commit To A Just Cause With No Hope Of Success Is Absurd. But Then, He Also Noted That Not Committing To A Just Cause Is Equally Absurd. But Only One Choice Offers The Possibility For Dignity. And Dignity Matters. Dignity Matters.

Camus Says In 'the Stranger' That Reason Is The Enemy Of Imagination. Sometimes You Have To Put Reason Aside And Make Something Beautiful.

Since Childhood, It Was My Dream To Go Where All The Poets And Artists Had Been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, Everybody - Paris For Me Was A Mecca.

The Boy I Loved Didn't Know I Existed. Then Again, He Was Obsessed With Camus, So He Didn't Know If Any Of Us Existed.

About One Month Before He Was Killed, When Asked By David Frost How His Obituary Should Read: Something About The Fact That I Made Some Contribution To Either My Country, Or Those Who Were Less Well Off. I Think Back To What Camus Wrote About The Fact That Perhaps This World Is A World In Which Children Suffer, But We Can Lessen The Number Of Suffering Children, And If You Do Not Do This, Then Who Will Do This? I'd Like To Feel That I'd Done Something To Lessen That Suffering.

A Friend Of Mine That I Was In A Band With Started Me On Kafka, Which In Turn Led To Camus And Sartre.