Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

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

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

What are you waiting for in order to give up?