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

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

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

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.