If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

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

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

The truth is always an abyss.

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.