We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed. Enchiridion

“Why, Milena, do you write about our common future which will never be, or is it that why you write about it? (…) Few things are certain, but one is that we’ll never live together, share an apartment, body to body, at a common table, never, not even in the same city. (…) Incidentally, Milena, you must agree when you examine yourself and me and take soundings of the “sea” between “Vienna” and “Prague” with its insurmountably high waves.” (Prague, September 1920) Letters To Milena

“The universe tended towards chaos and entropy. That was basic thermodynamics. Maybe it was basic existence too.” Midnight Library

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything. Book V