Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse for loving it. Everything is a matter of points of view, and misfortune is often only the sign of a false interpretation of life.

The United States is evil ... it is the canker of the world.

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.

Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

The United States is evil.

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.