The universal view melts things into a blur.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.

Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.