The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.