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

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself.