Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

Religions get lost as people do.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.