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

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.