Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

Please — consider me a dream.