No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.

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

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

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.