Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.