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?

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.

All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.