To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.