I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?