To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

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.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.