To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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.