Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

Hell is other people at breakfast.