To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

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.

Three words for a writer: Make me care.

Productive prayer requires earnestness not eloquence.

I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.

I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

I believe that voices like Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader should be heard. They don't have to be president. Give 'em a chance.

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.