A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

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.

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!