To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

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

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

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

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.