What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

Nothingness haunts Being.