Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

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

It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.