If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

Books are a narcotic.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.