The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

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

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.