Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

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

I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

We like lists because we don't want to die.