Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

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

At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.