It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.