God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Man started out on the wrong foot. the misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance of his nothingness.

The appetite for torment is for some what the lure of gain is for others.