I never wish to be easily defined.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.