True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart.

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

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

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.