Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell