Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

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

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.