There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.