We must discover security within ourselves.

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

... the unarmed power of naked truth.

I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.

She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.