But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

My childhood was appalling.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.