I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

Paths are made by walking

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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.