Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

Religions get lost as people do.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.