The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.