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.

Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

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

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.