If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.