"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

"My life is a writing, and I am the pen."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"I am a writer, but I am not a writer. I am a human being."

"I have been in many battles and I have been victorious in all of them. But now I am weary and I want to rest."