How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.... But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows.

Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to a…

If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that y…

Communication is the universal solvent.