Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

He who integrates is lost.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.