A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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