Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.

To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.