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

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.