Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.

We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

Literature bores me, especially great literature

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.