One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.