Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.