Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.