Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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 first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

One reads in order to ask questions

I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.