Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Verrร la morte e avrร i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.