Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

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

Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

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.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.