The further from one another, the nearer one can be.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.