I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

On the other hand, whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do ,and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we've been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.