From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.