I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death