My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.