It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.