One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Love is a drama of contradictions.