Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.