"Happiness is a very dangerous category. It's a kind of ideological blackmail."

"The ultimate truth is not some big cosmic secret, but the banality of everyday life."

"Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions."

"The only true freedom is the freedom to choose your unfreedom."

"My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up."