"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't try to make it popular. Don't try to make it like anything else. Instead, let it be your own. A wild, untamed thing."

"I am like a man who has built a house and then set fire to it."

"I am afraid of my body, of my senses, of my thinking, of my dreams, of my writing, of my life, of my death."

"My whole being is a being for writing. I am nothing else, and can be nothing else."

"The Messiah will come only when he is no longer needed; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last."