For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

invaders always destroy libraries.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.