He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Books are a narcotic.

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

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.