I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

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.