If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

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

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

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