It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!
To be a person is to have a story to tell.
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.
It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.
There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.