The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.