I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

Even paranoids have real enemies.