The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.