“Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines. ”

“Medien zu verstehen, ist eine Unmöglichkeit, weil gerade umgekehrt die jeweils herrschenden Nachrichtentechniken alles Verstehen fernsteuern und seine Illusionen hervorrufen.”

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

“When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.”

“This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough,--I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race...”

“One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”

“I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music”