When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

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