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

No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.