What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.