Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.