"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."

"Don't bend; don't water it; don't amend it. Let my soul gravitate to another."

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

"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?"

"I am a stranger in my own land."