There's no tyrant like a brain.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out.

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.