What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

With rebellion, awareness is born

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.