When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

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

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

Normal people have nothing to forget.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.