Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

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