"The Messiah will come only when he is no longer needed; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last."

"I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."

"What is the meaning of life? That it ends."

"I have not been able to write a single word for two days. I am completely empty."

"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or no eyes."