Wish for the best, prepare for the worst

Not all things can be expressed through words, not all the words reflect the truth.

There are 2 kinds of people in the world. Those who enjoy a nice salami and those who have no souls.

That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.

It's hard to not worry, because trying not to worry reminds me that I should be worried

The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

If someone says it's art, it's art.

Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.

Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.