The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

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.

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

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

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.