He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?

The world is a never-ending cross-reference.

I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.

Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.

She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.

Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.

Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.