Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.