Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

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

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.