When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.