All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Awake, chaos:we have napped.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

Nothing boosts confidence quite like simulating a disaster, engaging with it fully, both physically and intellectually, and realising you have the ability to work the problem.

In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?

When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too.