"I usually solve problems by letting them devour me."

"Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."

"A man's greatest joy is to be able to overcome his fear."

"The specter of death is not terrible, it is the inability to live that is terrible."

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, and I think differently from what I ought to think. And so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."