"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."

"The greatest joy is to be able to say, 'I have lived.'"

"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction."

"I am a bad writer, but I am a good person."

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