“Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.”

“Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.”

“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.”

“Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.”

“Can you say something about nothing?”

“Because it is idiotic. Writing when there's nothing to say...”

“Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage.”