The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

One reads in order to ask questions

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.