I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.