If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

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

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.