"I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, which is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. My poor, dear Milena, you are only a woman, you are not a man, you do not understand that for a man there is alw…"

"The chains of tormented mankind are forged from the written paper."

"The fact that there is a world, that there are things, that there are people, that there are events, is a source of constant amazement to me."

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

"The specter of death is not terrible, it is the inability to live that is terrible."