Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.