All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.

I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

Writing [is] a form of prayer.