One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

The lie is a condition of life.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.