Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

One can fall in love and still hate.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.