As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

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

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

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

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

A book is a suicide postponed.