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

There is no limit to suffering.

One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.