Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.