I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.

Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.