Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

We are all geniuses when we dream.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.