Literature is the history of the soul.

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.