There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

A child. . . opens and closes like a blossom.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days