To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.