It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are.

Good news is, we're annoying him. Bad news is, we're all going to die painfully.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can