"I never write a work continuously, without interruption."

"What is good must be good already in the first draft."

"I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down."

"I will seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend me completely to its will."

"May God continue to give you the strength to build your temple of Isis, and may the pure fire there devour all your afflictions so that you may awake like a new phoenix."