Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

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

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise. Don't ask, just come on,' said the young man. Is that any way to talk to me?' It's the way I talk to whores.

For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.