Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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

The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.