The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

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

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.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.