Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death.

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.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself.