"What is the good of a book that does not transport you beyond all experience?"

"You are free and that is why you are lost."

"I am constantly aware of the fact that I am not living a real life."

"I am a man of letters, and I am nothing else."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what's the point of reading it?"