What I do, I want to do with all my being.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t