There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

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

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.