Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.