To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

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

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.