The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

Religions get lost as people do.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

I am a cage, in search of a bird.