The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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