Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

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'.

Happy homes are filled with the noise of children

Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.

Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.

I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you are magic.

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.