The future is the worst thing about the present.

The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the strength of its style, just as the earth, suspended in the void, depends on nothing external for its support.

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.