It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Storm clouds will always ignite the darker side of my passion.

A fortress doesn’t fall unless its towers are weakened.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.

I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.