After all, there is nothing but failure.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

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

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

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

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.