Elias Canetti

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.