Layer by layer art strips life bare.

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

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.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

The body suffers, but the spirit is renewed.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

Burn? Smite? Punish? Why is your god so intolerant? So jealous? Why must there be only one god? Why is there not room for many?

If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

There was both love and despair in his voice. He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love hadn't changed that.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

In my mid-age I do feel more at peace - not with the world, but with myself.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.