...He said firmly, 'God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble.' 'Obviously,' I replied, 'they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it.' I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

There is something divine in mindless beauty.

Life is the sum of all your choices.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.