He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

To hope is to contradict the future.