With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.

Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.