Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

Life begins on the other side of despair.