A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.

There is hope, but not for us.

I need solitude

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

What an effort to keep alive!

there is a destination but no way there

someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence...

Love is a drama of contradictions.

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

Write regularly! Don't surrender!

to tell the truth is to lie; thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

Art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself:

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

this would require a night darker than any night has ever been...

"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day.

The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens...

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.