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

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

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

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

. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.