He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'.

To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.

When you tell the truth, people listen.

Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.

Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians

Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.