My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Writing [is] a form of prayer.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.