“If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.”

“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”

“Write me what you're wearing! Is it warm? Write me how you lie! Do you lie there softly? Write me how you look! Is it still the same? Write me what you're missing! Is it my arm? Write me how you are! Have you been spared? Write me what they're doing! Do you have enough courage? Write me what you're doing! Is it good? Write me, who are you thinking of? Is it me? Freely, I've given you only my questions. And I hear the answers, how they fall. When you're tired, I can't carry it for you. If you're hungry, I have nothing for you to eat. And so now I leave the world No longer there, as if I've forgotten you.”

“Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.”

“Why be a man when you can be a success.”

“For once you must try not to shirk the facts:Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.”

“and you i beg make not your anger manifest. For all that lives needs help from all the rest.”