This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

To think too much is a disease.

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?