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

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

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

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.

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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.

After all, there is nothing but failure.