Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.