Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

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

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.