However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.