"The Outsider’s case against society is very clear. All men and women have these dangerous, unnamable impulses, yet th…"

"The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider."

"What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality."

"Barbusse has shown us that the Outsider is a man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois…"

"Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its …"

"I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for …"

"The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. On…"

"No art can be judged by purely aesthetic standards, although a painting or a piece of music may appear to give a pure…"

"Humanism is only another name for spiritual laziness, or a vague half-creed adopted by men of science and logicians w…"

"The individual begins that long effort as an Outsider; he may finish it as a saint."