One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

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