There is no forgiveness in nature.

A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.