Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

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

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.