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.

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

The world is a never-ending cross-reference.

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

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

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

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