Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.