Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.