My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

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.

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