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

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.