"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
"Belief means not wanting to know what is true."
"one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood."