God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.