True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.