Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

Writing [is] a form of prayer.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

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

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.