Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.

Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.