The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

To hope is to contradict the future.