For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.