Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

Happiness too is inevitable.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.