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

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.