sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?' The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: 'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill