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.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

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.

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