He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'

To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.