The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist