I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind