We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.

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

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.

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

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