So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

Books are a narcotic.

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.