Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought

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.