I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

People avenge themselves for the favors done them.

Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.