"From the moment of birth, man is destined to suffer."

"The goal of all life is death."

"The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously—that is, he invests it with a great deal of affect—though he separates it sharply fr…"

"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at al…"

"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."