I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself.
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.
A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.
...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.
I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.
All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.