Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for suicides there is an additional five percent. Now that you are dead you are much in demand.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.

The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.