I do not love men: I love what devours them.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.