Book: The tunnel

At night we are always stronger than during the day when you need to act.

My head is like a dark labyrinth. Sometimes flashes momentarily illuminate the corridors. I was never clear why I do certain things.

Vanity hides in the most unlikely places: it coexists with kindness, selflessness, generosity.

Another thing - vanity: no one suffers from lack of vanity - the most important engine of Human Progress. I laugh at seniors, touches of modesty Einstein and others like him, it's easy to be humble when you're famous, or rather, to seem modest.

The world is ugly - that's the truth, you do not need to prove. Enough just one example: in the concentration camp a former pianist complained of hunger, and then he was forced to eat rat, and alive.