We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Killing time is the chief end of our society.