What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? …Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?

You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head.