The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too