To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.