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 believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.