The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.

We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.