In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

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

To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.