Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.