Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.