Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

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.

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

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!