It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

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

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

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist