For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

The more stitches, the less riches.

The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.