For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

We change ideas like neckties.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.