Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
We're all special cases.
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.