Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
You can only predict things after they have happened.
To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.
A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.
That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.