"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"He who has much to proclaim one day, stays silently much immersed within himself: he who has to kindle the lightning one day, must for a long time--be a cloud."

"We are always in our own company."

"When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed."

"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

"This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."

"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated."

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

"When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning."

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."