Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us--from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited?
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.