To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

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

"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.