The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.
Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.