I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.