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.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.

We are surely the primary agent of death for all members of the cat tribe. For many if not most cat species, our depredations must surpass accidents, disease, and even starvation by a considerable margin.