It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.