Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.