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

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.