Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Writers speak stench.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.