And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.