If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.