Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).

Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

I rightly pass for an atheist.