Writers speak stench.

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.