When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but record the worst of human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.