Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure, your dress, that I still see.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.