Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

What should a society be, so that in his last years a man might still be a man? The answer is simple: he would always have to have been treated as a man. By th…

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it prese…

The whole concept of celebrity pisses me off. While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers a…

You don't have to go to college to be a success ... We need the people who run the offices, the people who do the hard physical work of our society.

'A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already.' (p. 163)