Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.