Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

No one can crave what truly harms him.

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

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual.

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.