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.

If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.