"It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary."

"The greatest joy is to be able to do what you want."

"I have had a great deal of experience with people, and I have found that they are all the same, only in different ways."

"Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."

"I have been so completely absorbed by my work, by my literature, that I have not been able to live, to live with people, to live with the world, to live with myself."