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

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.

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Morality, when formal, devours.

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.