He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

The mind of man is capable of anything.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time—

I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

You will never be satisfied until you are completely satisfied with God.

... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both...

One life, One story. Make it a fairytale.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us!

I do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the world, or in myself. All is Good.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.