If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally.

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order.

For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.