Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.