Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.