Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.