You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.