If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.