O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.