What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.

The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.