It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

First impressions are always unreliable.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.