A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

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

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

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

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.