I would be pleased indeed, if the universe were full of blazing ovens, and concentration camps, and people deported. - Albert Caraco

French, German, English and Spanish are four admirable languages and I manage to express myself in all of them with more or less skill.

Pessimism has never been in fashion because no order could stand it; it's a luxury of the mind, and thus beyond the reach of the common man.

The older I grow, the more Gnosis speaks to my reason: the world is not ruled by a Providence, it's intrinsically evil and deeply absurd, and Creation is either the dream of blind intelligence or the game of a principle without a moral.