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

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.