"The fact that I am not happy does not mean that I am not grateful."

"The greatest cunning of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist."

"What is the good of a book without pictures or conversations?"

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what's the point of reading it? So that it will make us h…"

"I am constantly trying to find a way to escape from myself."