"Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenseless. When it is done, when the night is past, it is gone like a dream."

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."

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

"The greatest cunning of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist."

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones which can be given neither a name nor any real description…"