If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

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.

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.