Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.