There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.

Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.

The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself