People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.