I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.