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.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.