“In the story of the two quarelling cats and the monkey, no one asks the cake about its opinion. Then I would prefer to be the monkey and we would have an end-of-ideology and politics beginning right here.”

“Do people ever wonder about why it has been said that the mice shall play when the cat is away?”

“The best thing about being married and marriage is: when the two of you never feel that you are married or ever shall or ever were. You simply love one another.”

“Two wrongs never make a right. But that never means that you can continue with your wrongs.”

“If silence were your only friend, know that the universe understands you. If solitude is your only company, know that loneliness has left you. Should fame and wealth find you -know that it is much better than your finding them. For you shall still have silence as your best friend.”

“Modernity is not divorced from spiritualism, though it is from the charlatan. The ascetic (renunciate) owns nothing - not even his or her ego - in the spiritual realm. The charlatan seeks to own everything.”

“Everybody knows the thing about an infinite number of monkeys," Fenig said. "An infinite number of monkeys is put to work at an infinite number of typewriters and eventually one of them reproduces a great work of literature. In what language I don't know. But what about an infinite number of writers in an infinite number of cages? Would they make on monkey sound? One genuine chimp noise? Would they eventually swing by their toes from an infinite number of monkey bars? Would they shit monkey shit? It's academic, you say. You may be right.”