"What we do is always a matter of indifference, but how we do it, that's important."

"I am nothing, I am a dream, I am a phantom."

"It is a terrible thing to be alone in the world."

"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."

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in these bones."