A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact – that we are not equipped to perceive it, either by natural or supernatural means, is a nightmarish obscenity. C: The very notion of a grand scheme of things is a nightmarish obscenity.

Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone.

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of any kind When all there can be is mindless mirrors Laughing and screaming as they parade about in an endless dream

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.