The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.

But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has to offer but also because it needs our love. For with sad eyes its delectable creatures look up and beg us dumbly to ask them to follow. They are exiles who long for a future that lies in our power.

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.

One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.