The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

A book is a suicide postponed.

Some of the strongest warnings about judgment in the Bible come from the lips of Jesus.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

Is the game plan you are currently running the most direct path to your destiny?

Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.

You can't be everything. Nobody is everything. You just do what you do, and you try to do that as well as you can. And if somebody doesn't like it, too bad.