"The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is."

"The meaning of life is not a given; it is created by us."

"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."

"I burst out laughing at the thought of the face he would make. The Self-Taught Man looks at me with surprise. I'd like to stop but I can't; I laugh until I cry."

"Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]."