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

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

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

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.