Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.