Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism, it does seem that the naked fundamental experience itself, that primal seizure of mystic insight, stripped of religious concepts, perhaps no longer to be regarded as a religious experience at all, has undergone an immense expansion and now forms the soul of that complex irrationalism that haunts our era like a night bird lost in the dawn.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!