The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

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

Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.